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L THE ROMAN FOUNDATION 21
Pagan England. The Roman Empire—The Coming of
Julius Cojsar (55 B.C.)—Second and More Serious Invasion
of Julius Caesar (54 B.C.)—The Roman Empire—The
Founding of the Catholic Church—The Conquest of
England—The Great Rebellion of A D. 60—The Rule of
Agricola (A.D. 78-84)—The Long Peace (A.D. 84-193)—
The Effects of ihe Long Peace, The Catholic Church and
the Empire—England during the Long Peace—Separate
Military Position of England—The Conveisioix of Lucius
—Septimius Severus in Britain—The Effect of Septimius
Severus—The State of Civilization after Septimius Severus
—The First Pirate Raids on England—The German Settle-
ments—Carausius—Diocletian's Great Work—Diocletian's
Great Persecution*
The Catholic Empire. The Empire becomes Officially
Catholic, Constantine—Constantinople Founded—Arian-
ism and Niccca—The Church in Britain—The Full Roman
Empire under Constantine—The Institutions of this
United Roman Empire—After Constantine—The Change
in the Empire—Causes of the Change—Julian the Apostate
—His Action in Britain. The Pirate Raids—Julian's
Empire, Apostasy, and Death—Increasing Insecurity of
England—Direct Rule from Rome breaks down in Eng-
land—The Pagans and Heretics—The Internal Heresies—
Pelagius—St Gcrmanus in England—Britain breaks up
into Many Little Kingdoms (450-550)—Christian and
Pagan Kinglets, The Dialects—How all this had come
about—Our Direct Evidence of this—Our Indirect
Evidence—Our Evidence from what existed before and
after the Interval—Our Evidence from the Analogy of the
Danish Invasions—Summary—What had happened in the
Rest of the Empire—Our Evidence from Tradition—The
Church and Papacy in Western Europe (596)—The
Missions sent by St Gregory the Great to England.
II. THE DAEK AGES IN ENGLAND 68
The Seventh Century: England is restored to
Christendom* Nature of the Dark Ages—The Recovery
of England begins—St Augustine and his Companions,
The Failure of the Western British Bishops—Partial
Success and Death of St Augustine and the Kinglet of
Kent, Ethdbert—Edwin of NorthumbrianRecovery in
the North, Battle of the Wmwaed (654)—St Wilfrid and
the Council of Whitby (664)—Theodore of Tarsus,
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